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Chapter 36: What benefits does the Alipay Black Card offer?

Zhou Xixi's exclamation made the shop assistant lower his head to double-check that he had indeed received more than 10,000 yuan.

Wang Yaqi curiously leaned closer and was so surprised when she saw Zhou Lang's Alipay interface that she couldn't stop smiling.

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￥99.00 yuan

ASUS computer (Xiashan County Commercial Street Store) ¥10099

Alipay Wealth Black Card V2 Exclusive Discount of ¥10000

Transaction method: Yu'ebao

(Click to reconcile accounts with the merchant)

"Alipay? Wealth Black Card?"

Wang Yaqi's classmate Jiahao once showed off his Alipay account on his phone. When it reached 30 yuan, it turned dark blue, making it different from everyone else's light blue interface.

"Black cards offer these kinds of benefits?"

Zhou Lang put away his phone and laughed, "Normally it's just phone credit vouchers, Starbucks and the like, but it seems like even these most basic benefits have been cut this year."

"As for this—I guess I got incredibly lucky; it was a huge discount coupon I won in a lottery."

……

on the way home.

Zhou Xixi hugged the box of the new computer tightly and wouldn't let go.

Seeing his sister's delighted expression in the rearview mirror, Zhou Lang chuckled, "I'll buy you a phone in a few days, so be nice to your brother, understand?"

Zhou Xixi pouted and said, "Brother, you haven't bought yourself a new phone yet!"

"I'm not in a hurry for mine."

Zhou Lang had a feeling that the first thing he did after having money was to buy things for the people he loved, his parents and family. This experience was a hundred times more enjoyable than spending money on himself.

"Bro, I forgot to ask, why didn't you buy another laptop at the same time?"

Zhou Xixi still felt unworthy of it: "Why don't you use this computer? You need it more for work. I can just buy a used one for two or three thousand."

Zhou Lang thought to himself, the real reason is that I've run out of quota for today, and buying more would mean spending my own money, which I really can't bear to do...

However, he said, "I have a fixed place to live alone, so I plan to build my own desktop computer. Laptops in the same price range can't match the performance of desktops, but they are more portable and compact, which is more suitable for you in your university dorm room."

[Savings Account] The maximum weekly cumulative amount is 35000 yuan. Zhou Lang said, "I'm planning to buy a desktop computer for around 35,000 yuan. I wouldn't have dared to dream of such a price before. Even now, I'm still a little hesitant about whether I deserve such a nice thing."

Zhou Xixi could understand her brother's concerns. People who have come from a life of hardship tend to be frugal even when they have money, and are hesitant to spend it.

A prime example is the son of a farmer who kept hundreds of millions of yuan in his refrigerator; he was terrified of poverty.

So Zhou Xixi shouted loudly, "Perfect match! How could he not be a perfect match! My brother is top-tier, the absolute best, a perfect match!"

Zhou Lang was secretly pleased: "Okay, then I'll buy it."

"Brother, I declare you the best brother in the world, and I have six months, no... a year... four years of my right to be immune to criticism! From now on, if we ever argue, I'll be the first to back down!"

The brother and sister chatted and laughed as they returned home.

The mother laid out several cups, preparing to wash them.

Zhou Lang looked and saw that several of them were his own, as they had been covered in dust and dirt since he hadn't been home for a long time.

Zhou Xixi put the computer on the sofa and immediately rolled up her sleeves: "I'll wash it!"

She turned to Zhou Lang and asked, "Brother, what kind of fruit do you want to eat? I'll go buy it later!"

Zhou Lang nodded: "Yes, bribing a loyal servant with a computer is a worthwhile deal."

"How about some blueberries and mango?"

He checked the time: "I'm going out for a bit. I've arranged to meet a friend at an antique-style town."

"Friend?" Zhou Xixi narrowed her eyes, giving a strange, exaggerated laugh. "Girlfriend, perhaps?"

"Yes, a pure and innocent high school girl of eighteen," Zhou Lang said casually.

"Pshaw! Dude, you're just bragging."

Zhou Xixi, of course, didn't believe it: "18 years old? Isn't that the same age as me? Hey, how could you do that? At your age, you could be someone's father, right?"

"You already said you're the same age as him, and if he can call me 'Dad'—should you call him that too?"

Zhou Xixi's face stiffened, then she became furious and embarrassed: "Damn it! You took advantage of me! I'm going to tell Daddy! Dad—"

"Um?"

Zhou Lang pointed threateningly at the ROG computer on the sofa.

Zhou Xixi's anger vanished instantly, and she became as docile as a lamb: "Eighteen is eighteen... Go ahead and talk to her. At worst, your wife will call me 'sister,' and I'll call her 'sister-in-law.' We'll each have our own roles..."

"Why are you so talkative?"

Zhou Lang walked over to his sister with a smile, reached out and patted her head haphazardly, making her hair all messy.

Zhou Xixi stared at the brand-new computer, muttering to herself, "He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding..."

"I might not be home for dinner tonight. I'll contact you then. Goodbye."

……

It was almost noon.

Zhou Lang drove to the antique town first, then rode back from the town, and arranged to meet Su Ying'er at a viewing platform in the middle of the mountain road.

On the mountain view platform, several other travelers gathered, including self-driving tourists and fellow cyclists.

Su Ying'er sat alone on a rock in the corner, her car beside her, looking all lonely.

Several people nearby invited her to join their team, but she waved them off, saying she was waiting for someone.

When Zhou Lang arrived at the location by bicycle, he saw the little girl, a high school girl, looking enviously at a family of four not far away.

The family drove over, and the male head of the household had installed a first-person perspective action camera in the car, which he then removed.

The woman in the passenger seat held a gimbal camera, and the couple used two cameras to record the scene of their two children chasing, running and playing happily.

Zhou Lang walked silently to Su Ying'er's side. The girl looked up at him and smiled brightly, "Hello, hello~".

Perhaps not wanting Zhou Lang to think she was envious of the harmonious family scene, Su Ying'er changed to a wistful tone and said, "They have two DJI cameras, it looks like the new DJI Pocket 4, and the smaller one should be the Action 5?"

Zhou Lang chimed in, "In the past two years, DJI's little cameras have become quite popular. You can see a lot of girls carrying these things at any tourist attraction. They're very convenient for shooting vlog videos."

"I wish I had one too, but then I think about how limited its uses are. Maybe I'd just buy it and it'd just sit there collecting dust. No, no, I need to control myself. I can't buy it."

Zhou Lang asked with a smile, "A camera that costs two or three thousand shouldn't be too much of a burden for you, right?"

"You'll regret it if you buy it, bro."

Su Ying'er explained her thoughts with a smile: "I can definitely afford to buy it, but I'm a bit of a hoarder, especially when it comes to savings. If I have saved 31 yuan, subconsciously I feel that only 1 yuan is enough to spend."

"Just a small amount?" Zhou Lang chuckled, realizing that this was a similar mindset to his own.

When he first received the deposit of 500,000 and 4,000, he also thought that he would try not to use the whole number of 500,000, but only spend the change of 4,000.

"Yes, that's right." Su Ying'er nodded and said, "Once I've saved up enough for a round number, I've mentally defined them as 'dead ends,' and I don't want to spend them unless absolutely necessary."

"So when I saved up 210,000, I felt like I had a huge sum of 10,000 in my hands, and I was particularly prone to having the idea of ​​overspending."

But now it's almost 30, and I always want to round it up, so I'm afraid to spend a single penny recklessly. I'm much poorer than before!

Seeing Zhou Lang's cheerful and sentimental expression, Su Ying'er put her hands on her hips and said, "Brother, are you mocking me?"

Zhou Lang immediately shook his head: "No, I was just thinking—we are indeed very similar in some ways, no wonder we get along so well."